Box Office Failures
The Green Lantern
Ryan Reynolds as
Hal Jordan
Blake Lively as
Carol Ferris
Peter Sarsgaard as
Dr. Hector
No use of stars on
the films box office, which meant no build up
Directed by Martin
Campbell.
Total budgets cost
of production and marketing = $325,000,000
Worldwide theatre
gross = $219,851,172
Net losses =
$105,148,828
Genre: Superhero
film
Film failed
because:
-Noisy,
overproduced and thinly written
-Unstable,
goofy and downright derivative
Still
continuing to make a sequel or a trilogy.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits
Within
Total cost:
$167,000,000
Worldwide theatre
gross: $85,131,830
Net Losses:
$81,868,170
Director is
Hironobu Sakaguchi (Creator of Final Fantasy)
Alec Baldwin as Gray Edwards
Ving Rhames as Ryan
No notable stars in box office
Genre: Videogame Film (Fantasy)
Reason for failures:
It wasn’t what the fans wanted, they expected what you would expect in the game but there just wasn’t much to offer as a video game film.
It wasn’t what the fans wanted, they expected what you would expect in the game but there just wasn’t much to offer as a video game film.
Interesting fact: The film has a major influence of the successful Mass
Effect series.
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